One of my favorite things to cook is fish. I like what a simple meal it is, and that the main key to making a good meal is just being able to cook it right. Tonight I made trout in a lemon balsamic marinade with garlic, onions, and broccoli and rice that turned out extremely well.
ModBlog earlier today mentioned what they called “Howie’s innovative procedure” for eyeball tattooing in regards to the clip below, and for now my comment on it remains censored (hopefully they change that, because it seems a little lame to change history out of contempt — and even if it does eventually get through moderation, it sits there so long as to effectively scrub it from the conversation… sad that this still goes on).
Howie is the artist that’s done a majority of the procedures out there, including mine, and has surely improved on the technique through doing many, but the procedure itself (that of injecting the ink between the layers) was invented and innovated by me, and it’s something that I’m quite proud of so it was a little annoying to see my name get scrubbed out of its history. I’d wanted an eyeball tattoo for years before we eventually did it, and the idea for the procedure actually came from the procedure that was used to implant the “JewelEye”, in which saline is injected between the layers to form an elevated bubble for the implant. I figured that if you’re not looking for hard edged lines, that a similar injection of ink would be the most effective way to do it.
All things considered these guys did a remarkable job. I wonder if they got the idea from the Internet or one of the magazines that wrote about our procedures, or if they got the idea from watching the episode of CSI that was obviously based on Lane’s photos of my eye being done?
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I was honestly a bit surprised you weren’t mentioned in the post. I thought your face being the first picture of it you’d get some credit.
I made a comment on ModBlog recently on the allegedly racist tattoo issue, which was held “awaiting moderation” but then subsequently posted in its entirety.
I can see the logic behind so-called ‘first comment moderation’, but I do which they’d be more honest with people over the extent to which it’s being done otherwise.
I think your name is actually used as a key word for posts that require moderation.
Nikk – That was 100% my conclusion, too.
I honestly can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen that first pic of you, on your side with eyeball freshly blue’d, posted somewhere in the internets with a “wtf?” not far away. <3
I saw that episode and thought, “I know where they got that idea!” I hope you get proper credit where credit is due.
I posted a comment on here somewhere when I saw it air – they actually had printouts of your article with a pic that clearly showed your forehead
When I saw that on TV I was thinking “I bet they will have a printout from BME” and of course when the COs found the printout of instructions there you were with your eyeball. It’s funny how small things you do in your life can become such a huge focus- at least for a few minutes.
I just posted another comment on Modblog because it seemed like no one was sure if a tattooed eye would heal.
I said to look at your eyes and see how it settled as an example.
…awaiting moderation :/
@don; Do a lot of your posts on their get moderated too?
I actually sent you an email about the prison eyeball tattooing last month. i saw it on a show called “Lockup Colorado Extended Stay: Pain”
@Nikk – In fact no: I’d made previous ones which were all accepted straightaway, and a subsequent post too in response to the Year-End awards. It was only the one “offending” one in which I’d been rash enough to use the word Shannon which got moderated.
Honestly, thats my biggest complaint with BME at this point. I don’t think their allowing an open enough forum for discussion. There are other keywords too I believe.
Shannon – I’ve just spotted on Modblog that your comment has now been added in fact – two days later. It’s currently #19 in the thread.
i hope they all give credit where credit is due. i also think it would be interesting to keep track of who gets/does this proceedure as a way of seeing how a new mod spreads from underground to popularity. here is a rare chance.
id like to do mine with UV ink, but i would expect that to mess up my vision.
I do wish you could have posted an additional update to your experience outlining the long-term results of the tattoo and the resolutions of some of the problems you encountered.
I think it’s a good policy never to take any notice of bme anymore.
Just so that there’s no confusion in anyone’s mind, that last post wasn’t mine, by the way.
Whilst my namesake is, of course, entitled to his opinion, personally I continue to support BME – as the site which Shannon founded – despite its faults.
Ja sure Shannon, next thing you know you’ll try and convince us that you STARTED BME or some other lame unbelievable stuff like that
Her jewel eye implant experience, and a tattoo convention report from 2004 is all that’s left in the Publisher’s Ring, all of Shannon’s great articles and interviews have been scrubbed, so sad. I wonder Shannon if you kept a log of them somewhere where she could not delete them, I used to love reading them.
@Ursula – Most of them are still there, from 2008 going back to 2002, but they’ve been refiled and the indexing is a bit wonky. The URL you need is:
https://news.bme.com/tag/the-publishers-ring/page/1/
and you just increment the page number at the end to see the older ones. There are 13 pages altogether.
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